Inspirational Photography Quotes – The Moment!

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” – Ansel Adams

“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” – Linda McCartney

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” – Eudora Welty

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” – Berenice Abbott

“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques henri Lartigue

“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.” – Ernst Haas

“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell

“Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of actual fact in a way that makes it credible and vivid to an audience at the time.” – David Hurn

“The “moment” in landscape photography is when you know that you have captured the definite photo that sums up your whole trip.” – Paul Chong

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.” – Sahara Sanders

“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt